On August 1st, I saw a twitter from my friend Jenn in Chicago that said that all who are in Indianapolis must go see Ten Out of Tenn at Radio Radio that evening. Knowing that Jenn has music tastes similar to mine, I took up the offer and spent my $10 to go see them.

It was definately worth the $10, considering that the show would be displaying the talents of 10 musical artists from Nashville, Tennessee. Here’s the list of artists for you to muse through. They all sound lovely, and my personal favorites are Butterfly Boucher, K.S. Rhodes, Erin McCarley, Jeremy Lister, Tyler James and Andy Davis.

Erin McCarley – Matthew Perryman Jones – Tyler James – Butterfly Boucher – Griffin House – K.S. Rhodes – Trent Dabbs – Katie Herzig – Jeremy Lister – Andy Davis

I was surprised to already see a line at Radio Radio at 7:45PM and I was glad I made it early. I brought a few different cameras, my Holga and my Lomo Fisheye. As soon as these are developed I will post the results. I took one to two shots each of all perfomers, I believe. In the meantime, I did have my little digicam handy and the photos have been uploaded to my flickr (click).

I really enjoyed the collaborative feel of this show, in which every artist played on each other’s music (mostly). It was a fresh and innovative way to have 10 artists perform. I suppose this was done with the previous Ten Out of Tenn show. The only problem with this format is that the music all started to meld together and each artist started sounding like the next. It would have been nice if there was a bit more separation between the artists’ sounds.

Other than that, the sound was really good. It’s always a pleasure to hear musicians out of Nashville, TE that are not pure country. I met a few of the artists (Erin, Andy, Jeremy and Griffin) and it would have been nice to chat with them more, but ah well. Erin did give me a nice tour of the tour bus and doted on my glasses so much that I took a few shots of her with them on :}

I would also like to apoligize to Trent for confusing him with Andy! Almost all you boys wore hats and I was a bit confused!

Thanks for coming out to Indianapolis, Ten out of Tenn. Hopefully you all can come back to play individually. Let me know if you do and I’ll bring my cameras ;}